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The Activist (2014)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, political, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
political unrest, friendship, rebellion, injustice, state affairs, prison, society, confined, political activist, arrest, native, indigenous people, politics, friends, life is a bitch, prison life, best friend, dishonesty, power relations, violent content, native american, indigenous, best friends
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Activist
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and suspenseful films with plots about dishonesty, life is a bitch, danger, deadly, murder, rivalry and confined mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Activist: Formosa Betrayed (2009), Juncture (2007), The Confidant (2010), Legacy (2010), Mean Dog Blues (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
political unrest, police detective, politics, uncover truth, investigation, rebellion, who to trust, society, law enforcement, fight for supremacy, state affairs, special agent ...
Time:
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Place:
taiwan, chicago, asia
Similarity:
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570
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vengeance, doctors and patients, injustice, terminal illness, vigilante, fighting crime, murder, danger, strong female lead, female fight, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, bleak, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, best friend, betrayal, vengeance, rivalry, intrigue, murder, dishonesty, ambition, obsession, interracial, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Nigeria, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Taking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
soldier, conspiracy, obsession, rivalry, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, breaking point, losing-it hero, dishonesty, isolation, military, locked in a room ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
prison, escape, female nudity, murder, corruption, forest, false accusation, rape, tough heroes, power relations, injustice, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the ...
Style:
sexy, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, obsession, manipulation, couple relations, friends, rivalry, couples, dishonesty, uninvited guest, danger, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
high school, murder, investigation, uncover truth, rebellion, youth, idealism, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, college life, friendship ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, investigation, danger, confined, race against time, on the run, parents and children, friendship, abduction, woman with a gun, wrestling, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hard-hitting character study that's based on the real story of one man's journey to control his violence through religion. It takes us from the blood soaked East End of London to the world of the Islamic whirling dervishes.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
redemption, starting over, religions or cults, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, remorse, islam, best friend, violent content, urban ghetto, peace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young law student, Abby Porter, suspects that her sister, a stripper, may have been murdered. She discovers an illegal network of cross border plastic surgery centers providing crude, but inexpensive cosmetic surgery to young women in the United ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, uncover truth, doctors and patients, society, dishonesty, journalist, missing person, plastic surgery, danger, theft, kidnapping, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, organized crime, murder, prison, power relations, injustice, restaurant, confined, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
journalist, uncover truth, idealism, dishonesty, state affairs, cold war, whistleblower, contamination, journalism, war, disaster, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
denmark, greenland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, hunted, danger, woman in danger, psychopath, life turned upside down, stalker, threat, possessed human, mentally unstable, possessed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of a group of friends whose devotion to each other is tested when one of them is raped, and another one is murdered at a weekend party. Now they are forced to take the law into their own hands.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, moral dilemma, rivalry, murder, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, vigilantism, nightlife, friends, vengeance, violence spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
fish out of water, ambition, dishonesty, misfit, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, culture clash, rivalry, society, stock broker, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
During the first euphoric years following independence, two friends, Djaffar and Hamid, are promised a bright future in a free Algeria until one day when betrayal separates them.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
betrayal, life turned upside down, rebellion, dishonesty, rebelliousness, political unrest, social decay, friendship, life is a bitch, society, state affairs, friends ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
algeria, africa
Similarity:
33%
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561
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, death row, captivity, isolation, danger, filmmaking, confined, curses spells and rituals, abduction, electric chair, kidnapping, hollywood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is unexpectedly released from a Cuban prison.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, tense, emotional
Plot:
political prisoner, immigrant, life is a bitch, betrayal, politics, idealism, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance, state affairs, revolution ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
miami, latin america, usa, cuba, florida
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
trap, kidnapping, twists and turns, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, mind game, struggle for survival, trapped, new job, secret identity, rivals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
93
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
death row, execution, murder, injustice, heroes, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, amateur detective, life is a bitch, manhunt, state affairs, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
32%
690
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
parents and children, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, estrangement, uncover truth, dishonesty, twists and turns, investigation, murder, dead father, prostitute, nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The tragic real life story of a serial killer who stalked his victims in the early 1970's in small town America. A weaving trail of twists and turns that left people unsettled for two generations until investigative persistence aided by modern ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
psychopath, police investigation, serial killer, riddles and clues, legal investigation, life is a bitch, injustice, law enforcement, mind game, murder, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
70s
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, family relations, love affair, danger, nanny, attempted murder, adultery, urban, disorder, couple relations, crime gone awry, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
1K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, disposing of a dead body, friends, life turned upside down, dishonesty, danger, death, dark humor, cover up, accidental death, anti hero, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
on the run, crime gone awry, confined, dishonesty, rivalry, fugitives, chase, gang, doctor, halloween, home invasion, master criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
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